A railroad track for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad runs from the foreground back to the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel on Rollins Pass in Gilpin County, Colorado. A small group of tents is in the foreground. Pine trees stand along the...

A railroad track for the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad runs from the foreground back to the East Portal of the Moffat Tunnel on Rollins Pass in Gilpin County, Colorado. A small group of tents is in the foreground. Pine trees stand along the...

A group of men stand on the porch of the Bank of Moffat, in the town of Moffat, Saguache County, Colorado. A man identified C. E. Logan leans with his foot on a post. Signs in the windows of the bank building read: "Bank of Moffat, Capital Stock...

View of a dirt street and buildings in Moffat (Saguache County), Colorado. Shows probably construction workers at probably the Moffat Hotel, a two-story brick building with quoins and a hipped roof. Ladders are against windows. Frame houses,...

View of the abandoned Moffat Town Hall building at the northwest corner of Lincoln and Moffat Way in Moffat (Saguache County), Colorado. The one story building has a false front and clapboard siding. Two front windows frame the entrance. The words...

26, 1928 when the first passenger train passed through it. (Moffat died in 1911 and thus never saw his dream become a reality.) The tunnel passed under James Peak and eliminated the 27-mile trip up the steep grade of Rollins Pass, effectively ...

People gather around a KOA radio broadcast microphone at a ceremony to celebrate the completion of the Moffat Tunnel at East Portal (Gilpin County), Colorado. An announcer holds a piece of paper and stands on a podium. Men wear suits and overcoats,...

Studio portrait of two children (boys) possibly the sons of Edmund J. Moffat. The older boy wears a long, dark, round-collared coat with wool, check trousers and a handkerchief in his breast pocket. The younger wears a light colored suit, a...

View of the First Baptist Church on the corner of 4th Street and Lincoln Street in Moffat (Saguache County), Colorado. The church has a two story bell tower above the entrance. The tower has flared eves and a cupola. The roof and tower are covered...

View of the abandoned Moffat Station at 2101 15th Street in the Union Station neighborhood, Denver, Colorado. The predominantly Georgian Revival style, one story brick building was designed by Edwin Moorman in 1906. The building has a shaped...

View of the West Portal of the Moffat Tunnel located in Grand County, Colo. The tunnel officially opened on February 26, 1928 as part of the mainline route across Colorado for the Denver and Salt Lake Railroad. Above the entrance to the tunnel...

Studio portrait of Samuel Moffat, brother of David Halliday Moffat, Jr. He poses in a Denver studio, his elbow leans on a pedestal. He wears a dark, double-breasted coat, cravat with stick pin, high-collared shirt, vest and a ring.

View of the Quarry Exhibit Hall located on Utah 149, 7 miles north of U.S. 40, in the Dinosaur National Monument, Dinosaur, Moffat County, Colo. Designed in 1958 by the architect Richard Hein of Ansen and Allen, the exhibition hall is an example...

Mayor Benjamin Stapleton and Denver Water Commissioner Richard Wensley hold the switch mechanism to a sluice gate near the Moffat Filter Plant in Lakewood (Jefferson County), Colorado. Other men, photographers with cameras, and two women stand...

A man and a child sit in an automobile parked near the post office building in the town of Moffat, Saguache County, Colorado. The building is a false front structure with a brick facade. The side of the building is covered with corrugated tin....

A man, woman, and children stand on the porch of the J. W. Hockaday Hardware store in the town of Moffat, Saguache County, Colorado. Wagons, wheels, gears, and cans are displayed in the shop window. A large sign on the false front of the building...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station and rail road tracks, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never reached any farther...

Exterior photograph of the Moffat Station and rail road tracks, prior to restoration, located in Denver, Colorado. The 1906 depot served as the Denver terminus of David Moffat's railroad over Rollins Pass. The Denver, Northwestern & Pacific never...

View of Steamboat Rock (Echo Rock), a sheer sandstone monolith in Echo Park, on the Green River at the confluence with the Yampa River in Moffat County, Colorado (later Dinosaur National Monument). Shows a boat and a tarp near the water's edge.

View of a house on 11th (Eleventh) Street in the Auraria neighborhood of Denver, Colorado; formerly the David H. Moffat residence and business. Sign reads: "Al's Shoe Shop." A rocking chair is in the yard. Address reads: "1160."

Smoke rises from a Denver & Salt Lake Railway Company locomotive at the entrance to the Moffat Tunnel at the west portal near Winter Park in Grand County, Colorado. Shows snow and icicles, the dates "1923" and "1927" carved on both sides of the...

Construction workers pose for a group portrait inside the Moffat Tunnel beside a sign that reads: "Refuge No.12" in Gilpin County or Grand County, Colorado. The men hold lanterns and wear tall work boots, overalls, overcoats, gloves, hats or caps...

Spectators stand beside Denver and Salt Lake railroad tracks, locomotive number "205," and Union Pacific passenger cars at the celebration of the opening of the Moffat Tunnel in East Portal (Gilpin County), Colorado. People wear overcoats and hats....

Smoke rises from Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad locomotive #482 (2-8-2), with gondola cars, as it passes the depot in Moffat (Saguache County), Colorado. The locomotive has a pilot mounted snowplow. The depot building has a gable roof and a...

View of a California Zephyr train on Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad tracks at the east portal of the Moffat Tunnel in Gilpin County, Colorado. Passenger observation cars read: "Silver Bronco," "D.& R.G.W." and "C.B.& O." "Moffat Tunnel,...

This section represents block 2 in the Cheesman & Moffat's Addition subdivision from volume 7. Information is arranged alphabetically by subdivision name, block and lot number followed by properties in unincorporated areas. Transaction information...

Comprehensive index created of the 1885 Arapahoe County, Colorado State Census created by The Colorado Genealogical Society. Geographically included in the index is: present Denver, Arapahoe and Adams counties. Information included in the index...